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Raise your gin-in-a-tin in triumph: Fleabag is to return. However, it’s not a new series of the popular drama, which ended for good last month, as the heroine will appear on stage in London’s West End instead.

Creator of the successful show – which was originally a one-woman play – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, announced today that the original stage performance will be revived and will run for four weeks at Wyndham’s Theatre from 20 August to 14 September.

Fleabag, which is directed by Vicky Jones, has played at various theatres since it first premiered, with an off-Broadway run, starring Waller-Bridge, having just finished.

The play was premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, and came about after Waller-Bridge was asked by a friend to create a sketch for a 10-minute section in a stand-up storytelling night.

The theatre show was then adapted into a BBC Three series in 2016, which jumped over to BBC One for the most recent episodes. Waller-Bridge received a BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the TV series was a hit with both critics and the public alike.

How to get tickets?

Tickets for the show are on sale from 3pm today [Thursday 2 May] here and 25 per cent of them will be £25 or less.

It’s been announced that this will be the last time Waller-Bridge will perform the part on stage.

Waller-Bridge’s official comment on the press release for the show was simply: “Looooonddddooooonn!! ❤

What happened at the end of the series and why won’t there be any more?

Viewers will only ever get to watch 12 episodes of the two series, as Waller-Bridge ended the show for good in April.

At its climax. the hot priest – Andrew Scott – told Fleabag that she would get over being in love with him, before she walked off into the distance, shaking her head and telling viewers that they wouldn’t be joining her on where life took her next.

Her co-star, Sian Clifford (who played Fleabag’s sister, Claire) had told the BBC: “There will not be a third series. This is it. I think I’ve described it online as this beautiful perfect ending, and it is, but I think what it’s closer to is poetry.

“I think people will accept that this is the end when they see it, because I think it is complete. I think the story is complete.”

What is Waller-Bridge doing next?

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been drafted in by the producers of the new James Bond film to add her offbeat wit to the storyline.

Daniel Craig asked the in-demand comedy star to sprinkle some of the sharp-edged dialogue which made Killing Eve, the television spy saga written by Waller-Bridge, such a hit, over 007’s 25th outing.

Waller-Bridge met Craig, who returns as Bond, before agreeing to work on the script.

She is said to have made her mark on a plotline which finds Bond forced to come out of retirement in Jamaica, in partnership with a new female agent who has taken over the 007 number. It also comes on the back of her script-writing and producer success on Killing Eve.

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